Hello Williams List, One way to try to correct any misinformation out there if people are unwilling/unable to delete/correct misinformation is that some of those trees have the capability to add "postems". This might be the place to add in a disclaimer that the info is wrong and to contact you at your email address if there are any questions so you can correct the interested party. The postems can not be deleted because they require a password that you enter when you add the info. At least it's a start if ancestry, rootsweb and LDS are unwilling/unable to delete the multiple trees that are incorrect copies Mary in CA *********** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Trim" <ctrim@pdq.net> To: <WILLIAMS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 6:55 AM Subject: RE: [WILLIAMS] Let me explain my Williams > I too had a similar situation. A group of us for years had been digging > into the line on my husband's side. We had names but no proof how each > generation was linked to each other. There were several scenarios floating > around. A new inquiry from a young woman came on the scene --who was doing a > genealogy project for "school". She gleaned from each contact and then > wondrously found the missing links. Oh the works were published all > right -- she was a member of the Mormon church -- she turned the data in as > truth for her family. They are now published as what some consider as the > truth for ever. I contacted members of the church and representatives of > the church at an LDS research center. No one could help. To make matters > worse, the same wrong information was given to the companies that publish > and sell. It is out there on cd after cd and in the vast Internet for > every. > > My regret is that for generations to come, decedents will be led down the > wrong path. We think finally we have sorted out the ordeal, and it is not > like published. This experience soured me so. Our family research group had > limited the sharing but some twit made a rosy story anyway declared to her > church as the truth. > > Carolyn Williams > > > > ==== WILLIAMS Mailing List ==== > List web page: http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/lists/WILLIAMS.htm > Your WILLIAMS listowner - Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/ >

At 08:06 AM 10/28/02 -0800, Mary Bateman wrote: >Hello Williams List, > >One way to try to correct any misinformation out there if people are >unwilling/unable to delete/correct misinformation is that some of those >trees have the capability to add "postems". This might be the place to add >in a disclaimer that the info is wrong and to contact you at your email >address if there are any questions so you can correct the interested party. >The postems can not be deleted because they require a password that you >enter when you add the info. At least it's a start if ancestry, rootsweb and >LDS are unwilling/unable to delete the multiple trees that are incorrect >copies > >Mary in CA Hi, Mary: Ancestry, RootsWeb, and LDS do not claim accuracy for any of the user-supplied information that they make available. For them to do that, they would have to have an entire regiment of Certified Genealogists, at least, as paid staff, checking up on each submission. You would have to pay many hundreds of dollars a year for access, for many fewer records than are now available. The LDS (I am not a member of that religion) are particular careful to point out that the nature of the information that is supplied in the Personal Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index make it inevitable that the quality of the information will be "uneven", at best. They post that disclaimer on the familysearch.org website, and the volunteers at my nearby FHC say the same thing. Yet there are nuggets of gold in the mud at the bottom of the creek, and I am so very glad that I have had the chance to find a few of them. Anyone who takes any of this secondary information at face value will get results that match in quality. But oh, what clues!! Darrell Darrell Allen MARTIN a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/